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Brigette

#7,554 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Brigette has been given to 5,727 babies in the U.S. since 1953. In 2025 it ranked #7,554 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1968, with 185 recorded.

Babies named Brigette, 2025

1 in 237,000

Brigette over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brigette: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Brigette means

Brigette is a given name.

The naming story behind Brigette

Wikidata records Brigette as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q98651338, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,727 girls were recorded with the name Brigette between 1953 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 185 in 1968; its best national rank was #716 in 1968.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,406 in 2020 to #7,554 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,508 in 2015 to #7,554 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Brigette?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,554
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brigette sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brigette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brigettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brigette was born before 1979 — so the typical Brigette is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
24.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,727
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 24.0% of all recorded uses (1,375).

Is Brigette rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+4,836
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,852
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,046
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.6%
Peak was 1968 (185)
Years since peak
57
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#716
1968

Spellings of Brigette

Brigette is not the most common spelling — Bridgette is, with 43.3% against Brigette's 10.4%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Brigette is used

Across 1910–2025, Brigette was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 42,064 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 16,667
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 20,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 33,333
  4. 4Illinois1 in 33,333
  5. 5Michigan1 in 33,333
  6. 6New York1 in 33,333
  7. 7Texas1 in 33,333
  8. 8Ohio1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Brigette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Brigette around the world

Where Brigette ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    1991–2010
    #3,238
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1960–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Brigette

People whose public names include Brigette, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Brigette in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Brigette. Linked forms have their own page here.

BrigettaBridgette

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Brigette by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,554
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,852
Best rank ever
#716
1968
Peak year
1968
185 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,727
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Brigette

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Brigette

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Brigette, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Brigette

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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